Method of producing wide loom fabrics



June 25, 1929. w, BAYLls 1,718,273

METHOD OF PRODUCING WIDE LOOM FABRICS Filed Oct. 2'7, 1928 A BERT WILeuR BAYLIS INVENTOR BY 6,; mmew ATTORNEY Patented June 25, 1929.

UNITED STATES ALBERT WILBUR BAYLIS, OF SCARSDALE, NEW YORK.

METHOD OF PRODUCING WIDE LOOM FABRICS.

Application filed October 27, 1928. Serial No. 315,512.

This invention relates to improvements in the method of manufacturingprinted warp yarns into fabrics, such as bed spreads, draperies, couch covers, portires, table covers 5 and the like, and has particular reference to a method of producing wide loom fabrics from printed center and border warp threads and/or in combination with dyed warps.

The ordinary practice of producing printed warp yarn comprises the use of warp printers, which are drums carrying the printing surfaces, and which because of the great-expense involved in producing them are rarely, if ever, over fifty inches in width. As a consequence, it has not been practical to contemplate the manufacture of woven material from printed warp in one continuous width of more than say fifty inches. This narrow fabric, of course is of little use for bed or table covers, particularly, and it has been the practice heretofore to print and Weave the center portion 'in one or more widths, stitch them together and then print and weave the border separately andstitch it to the edges of th'e'centerportion.

The object of the present invention is to provide a method of utilizing continuous printed warp threads in the manufacture of one piece fabrics having substantially any width required, and I accomplish this object by printing the sections of the warp separate 1y, i. e. on printers of not over say fifty inches in width, and thereafter mounting the respcctive sections upon separate narrow beams and then running any desired number of sections side byside either directly into a loom or onto a wide loom beam, and thence into a loom.

In order to give a more comprehensive un 4 derstanding of my improved method of utilizing printed warp threads, in the manufac-' ture of wide loom materials, I have illustrated in the accompanying drawing the arrangement of the printed warp as 1t is assembled before weaving.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a wide beam and the narrower beams supplying the wide beam with printed warp threads Figure 2 is a side view of the same; Figure 3 is-a view of a section of the wide loom fabric manufactured according to my improved method; and Figure 4 is a plan view showing the narrow beams supplying the printed warp threads directly into a loom.

Referring to the drawings, 10 denotes the wide beam over which the warp threads are wound, and 11 a beam upon which the warp threads 12 forming the center portion 13 of the fabric are wound. If, for example, the center portion 13 is to be thirty-six inches wide the warp threads are printed on a single printing drum inthe well known manner. In a similar manner the border warp threads 14 are printed onone or more printing drums and wound onto a third beam 15. The beams 11 and 15 are arranged behind the wide beam 10, and since the border warp is printed to supply warp for both borders 16, the beam 15 carrying the border warp 14 is arranged ona higher elevation than the center warp beam 11, so as to enable the two sections of the border warp to divide and fan outwardly to occupy the opposite end portions of the wide beam 10, as illustrated in Figure 1. A comb or other suitable means for holding the border warp threads 14 in the desired position as they reach wide beam 10 is employed. The beam 11 is also arranged in closer proximity to the beam 10 than the other beam 15, so as to permit the center warp threads 12 to pass easily to the mid portion of the wide beam 10. It will be clear that having once arranged the warp threads 12 and 14 upon the wide beam 10 in one continuous width, thefinal operation of manipulating the warp in a loom to pro- 85 duce the full width material is just a matter of common practice in the weaving art, since looms for manufacturing almost any width of material are in everyday use.

When it is desired to run the sections of center and border warp threads respectively. from the respective narrow beams 11 and 15 directly into a loom and thus dispense with wide beam 10, the arrangement of beams 11 and 15 are as described in the preceding paragraph but the threads coming from the short er beams are fed in the desired position side by side through the comb and thence directly into the loom, .instead of being mounted or wound upon the wide beam 10.

The method I use to produce wide loom ma- .terial in continuous widths from printed war threads coming from separate beams is as follows: The center war threads 12 are printed so that, for examp e, atline of diamond shaped designs 17 will appear in the center portion 13.- It is contemplated that the width of the center portion may be either I say fifty inches or less, or multiples thereof. The warp threads 12 after being printed are wound upon the beam 11, or corresponding beams. In a similar manner the border warp threads 14 are printed and wound preferably upon a single beam 15 so that the border Warp for each side of the material occupies one half the beam 15. If the loom is ready for the reception of the warp threads, then both beams 11 and 15 are arranged behind the loom and the warp threads 12 threaded forward over the comb and directly into the loom while the border warp threads 14 are divided through the comb, so that one-half is passed to form a continuation of the center warp threads atone side and the other half passing to the opposite side to form a continuation of the other side of the center Warp threads 11. If, however, it is desired to mount the warp threads upon Wide beam 10 either for immediate or for future use, then beams 11 and 15 are arranged behind the wide beam 10 and the warp threads 12 threaded forward through the comb over the center portion of the wide beam 10 while the border warp threads 14 are divided through the comb, one-half being passed to the beam 10 to form a continuation of the center warp threads at one side and the other half passing to the opposite end of the beam 10 to form a continuation of the other side of the center warp threads 11. In order to illustrate the border warp threads I have shown a scallop design 18 which has been printed on the threads by a printing drum in the usual manner. From the wide beam 10-, or directly from the comb as the case may be, the full width of warp threads, including center and border is threaded through the barness of the loom to be woven into fabric having center and borders in one piece. v

The invention then, comprises substantially the step of transferring separately printed warp threads onto a wide beam which may or may not be the loom beam, for the purpose of cloth production, instead of as heretofore, printing the warp threads in widths no greater than fifty inches and then passing those threads directly onto the loom for the weaving of fabric of such a'limited dimension.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The herein described method of arranging printed warp threads, which comprises the step of transferring separately printed warp threads from narrow beams to a wide beam, one section of the threads being disposed to pass onto the mid portion of the wide beam and the other sections passing onto the end portions of the wide beam to form a continuous width with the mid portion. of a continuous predetermined pattern.

2. The herein described method of preparing warp threads to be fed into a loom, which comprises the step of printing sections of the warp separately, winding each section onto a separate beam, and thereafter unwinding simultaneously the sections of printed warp threads from the beams to pass onto a single wide beam, to form a continuous predetermined pattern.

3. The arrangement of transferring separately printed widths of warp threads'onto a wide beam, which comprises a beam holding the center portion of the printed Warp threads, the latter passing directly to the mid portion of said wide beam, and a second beam holding the opposite border portions of the printed warp threads, the latter being divided at their mid portion, the warp threads to form one border passing over the center beam and its threads and then outwardly to the wide beam to form a continuation of the center warp threads at one side thereof, and the warp threads of the other border passing on the same plane as the other border threads to form a continuation of the other side of the center Warp threads, the printed warp threads for the full width of fabric to be woven being then arranged on the wide beam.

In testimony whereof he has afiixed his signature.

ALBERT WILBUR BAYLIS. 

